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attractions. Doubtless other travelers in tropical regions might 

 add other fruits from their own discoveries, and perhaps I shall 

 be told that others in my list have been tried and found wanting, 

 but this Institute is founded for the helpful increase of knowledge, 

 and such criticisms tend that way. 



I am in a position to come in contact with the most intelligent 

 of our visitors and the question is often asked "Where are your 

 native fruits?" They repeat what we all know that our markets 

 are filled with the fruit they have just eaten in California, and 

 could have eaten all over the United States. They find neither in 

 the market nor at their hotels anything else. Occasionally one can 

 find at a Chinese fruit stall breadfruit, (which I have seen one of 

 our military visitors trying to eat as he would an apple,) soursops, 

 carambolas, and water lemons and ohia ai get more generally into 

 the market at times, but where outside our own gardens can even 

 good bananas be obtained ? Go to the West Indies, Jamaica, for 

 instance, and you may not be there in the best season, but will 

 always find such a display of fruit as will astonish and puzzle yon. 

 You will need a guide to direct you to what is best, so great is 

 the variety. The same might be the case here with a little exertion 

 and my object tonight is to call attention to some neglected fruits, 

 and perhaps suggest new uses of what we have, to in some meas- 

 ure remedy a state that all visitors notice and deplore. Some- 

 years ago it w^as my privilege to entertain at luncheon a party of 

 friends from Boston, and I placed before them thirteen fruits 

 that the majority of the party had never before tasted, and many 

 were entirely unknown by name, but all were liked, and on his 

 return to Boston one of the party described that luncheon in an 

 address on these islands, and I fear that I shall never hear the end 

 of that fruit unless some of you will kindly surpass it with some 

 of the newspaper visitors that come here. 



I have arranged my list not in alphabetical order, but in the 

 natural sequence of families as generally recognized by botanists, 

 and I should warn you at the beginning that the specific, and 

 sometimes even the generic names of fruit-bearing plants are not 

 always of universal acceptance, a situation easily explained by the 

 astonishing variation among cultivated fruits, a variation which 

 Mr. Luther Burbank has taken advantage of to produce those 

 results that have astonished so many visitors to Santa Rosa, be- 

 sides myself. The fruits that are attractive to man he cultivates 

 and most of them respond to cultivation until those that have long 



